placenamesKillukin
Cill Abhaicín
Lewis recorded support for one school within a larger parish network.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Abhaicín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killukin · English · main form
Place & story
A contribution to teaching
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded about 120 children across Killukin’s three public schools. The curate gave £4 10s annually towards one of them. Lewis did not name that school or identify the payment as its entire income. Four private schools together taught about 200 children, and there was also a Sunday school. These totals describe the parish in the barony of Boyle. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killukin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killuken, Boyle: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.